The Last Recreations: Hydras, Eggs, and Other Mathematical Mystifications
Author: Martin Gardner
Published by Springer New York
ISBN: 978-0-387-25827-0
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-30389-5
Table of Contents:
- The Wonders of a Planiverse
- Bulgarian Solitaire and Other Seemingly Endless Tasks
- Fun with Eggs
- Fun with Eggs
- The Topology of Knots
- M-Pire Maps
- Directed Graphs and Cannibals
- Dinner Guests, Schoolgirls, and Handcuffed Prisoners
- The Monster and Other Sporadic Groups
- Taxicab Geometry
- The Power of the Pigeonhole
- Strong Laws of Small Primes
- Checker Recreations
- Checker Recreations
- Modulo Arithmetic and Hummer’s Wicked Witch
- Lavinia Seeks a Room and Other Problems
- The Symmetry Creations of Scott Kim
- Parabolas
- Non-Euclidean Geometry
- Voting Mathematics
